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Wharton Summer Programs: Associations & Statistics

Small Businesses in the United States

Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)
BDS from the U.S. Census Bureau provides annual measures of business dynamics (such as job creation and destruction, establishment births and deaths, and firm startups and shutdowns) for the economy and aggregated by establishment and firm characteristics.
SBA Office of Advocacy: Research
YourEconomy.org
Database originally created from National Establishment Time Series data, now using Your-economy (YE) Time Series data. YE is an annual establishment-level time-series online research tool that tracks all establishments and their jobs, including for-profit (both privately-owned and publicly-traded), non-profits, and government, from 2004.
National Small Business Association Surveys and Research
Includes "biannual Economic Reports which provide trending data on how small business is faring, a host of targeted surveys on items ranging from taxation to exporting" and weekly polls.
Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics
University of Michigan research program designed to enhance the scientific understanding of how people start businesses.

International Small Businesses

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
An annual assessment of the entrepreneurial activity, aspirations and attitudes of individuals across a wide range of countries.
New Businesses Registered (from the World Bank)
The number of new limited liability corporations registered in the calendar year. Data available to 2018.
World Bank Enterprise Surveys
Company level data from emerging markets and developing economies.
World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Snapshots
A joint effort by the World Bank Development Research Group, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Kauffman Foundation. This is the most comprehensive dataset on cross-country firm entry data available.

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